“The trial period has been phenomenal,” said Jeff Bergau, public relations manager for Calgene Fresh, the company that produces and distributes the MacGregor brand Flavr Savr tomato.

Do you remember the Flavr Savr tomato? It was the first genetically engineered crop to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval 25 years ago. The growth of genetically modified food has ...

I was disappointed that the Sept. 27 article "Genetic modification" did not go into detail why some GM foods could be very dangerous like the FlavrSavr Tomatoes mentioned in article. Here is what I ...

And the public at large? They didn’t really know what to think about this newfangled food, although tomatoes grown with Flavr Savr seeds were approved by the Food & Drug Administration and ...

It was a tomato called 'Flavr Savr', which stayed fresh for up to 30 days. Show more In 1994, biotech company Calgene brought the world's first genetically-modified food to supermarket shelves.

The first genetically modified organism (GMO) product which was approved for commercialization by the FDA was the Flavr Savr tomato. By interfering with the natural softening of the tomato ...

On this day in 1996 the first GM product - a tomato puree made from the Flavr Savr tomato hit UK shops. The product was produced by Zeneca from tomatoes that were grown and processed in California and ...

Genetically modifying food is not a new concept by any means. The "Flavr Savr" tomato, the first commercially available genetically modified food, went on sale in 1994. Luckily there have been ...

Glow-in-the-dark mice, silk-producing goats, venomous cabbage-- these are all wacky and downright unsettling examples of what can happen when scientists tinker with DNA. They're also part of the ...

Only half of today's firms are expected to exist five years from now, but a similar decrease in jobs is notnecessarily in the offing FEELING FINE: Analyst Joyhn Wong sees biotech layoffs as part of a ...

Engineered to express the endogenous polygalacturonase gene in the antisense orientation, FLAVR SAVR showed reduced expression of this cell wall–degrading enzyme, consequently delaying the ...